Police link Latvian crime in Lithuania

  • 1999-07-01
RIGA (BNS) – Nikolay Lebedev, charged with murdering a Daugavpils police officer, is suspected of having committed other crimes as well, including the murder of the state prosecutor in Panevezys, Lithuania, Latvian police said.Aloizs Blonskis, Latvia's criminal police chief, said suspicions arose after Daugavpils police apprehended Lebedev after he shot and killed Sgt. Gennady Kalasnikov.Blonskis cited similarities between that killing and the murder of Panevezys prosecutor Gintautas Sereika, both of whom were killed in January. Blonskis suggested Lebedev could be a contract killer. Police ...
 
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